I am a creative thinker, a maker of objects and an artist working for public and private commissions. I make art for domestic use, for decoration, for contemplation, for social comment and as carriers of narrative. Why is it important? Who is it for? What does it do? Can it be different? I question the place that my work has in the world.
My life is a place where cultures, societies, personal histories, traditions and aesthetics intersect. As an immigrant to America, who is bilingual and has lived in many countries, I find myself trying to make connections between the disparate strands of my experiences. My aim is to create work that contains my story and bears witness to my life journey. I am not attached to one fixed medium, but try to find media which permit many layers of meaning, and allow for multiple solutions. I enjoy experimentation, risk-taking (failure included) and improvising at will, as well as employing problem solving skills, acquiring technical skills, and seeking in-depth knowledge.
I experience the world through my senses which carries into many forms of art making - from recontextualizing a folk tale I heard as a child in Korea, to, more recently, designing a chair in homage to Eero Saarinen. The intimate experience of using just my hands to create cups and bowls out of clay is what I consider true bliss.
